Hi,
So I've spent the past 2 days searching the web for an answer with lots of similar problems, but nothing that directly correlates. My scenario is, I have a windows server 2012 instance used as a virtual host that is running around 10 VM's.
Last Friday, everything was fine. I logged into SCVMM yesterday morning to check our VM's across the network to find that one particular host was "Host Not Responding", i logged into the host itself to see whats going, bringing up Hyper-V manager
to find that all of my virtual machines weren't displayed, nor was the local server in the console pane. In a blind panic I quickly checked that I could remote onto one of the server's that is hosted on the effected host - I could. So with everything seeming
to run fine, i composed myself and started to wonder what has happened. There are no error logs, nor error messages when trying to open hyper-v, it just seems to sit doing nothing (with the snap-in loaded).
Google quickly tells me that the .xml file corresponding to the VM's has become corrupted and therefore i'll need to remove the suspect parts of the .xml config to make them "reappear" in the console pane. I'm not hugely experienced with reading
.xml but everything i can find in google that's apparently the "corrupted sections" of config aren't within my .xml files - leading me to believe that they aren't actually corrupted.
I have tried to restart the Hyper-V management service to no avail, I have not restarted the host as if that doesn't fix the problem and I cannot restart the VM's that are running on this host then i will have a huge problem, so i'd like to fix this issue
without restarting the host.
Nothing happened that I am aware of over the weekend that could of caused this, it seems to be completely random with no events or errors to support any foul play.
One thing i did notice, on my other hosts, i do not have .xml files, on each of the other hosts i have .symlink files instead.
please help!
Regards,
Dale